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Essential Skills--Made Easy!

Leverage the power of the Zend Framework to supercharge your PHP development! Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide covers key features, including model-view-controller implementation, routing, input validation, internationalization, and caching, and shows you how to use them in a practical context. The book walks you through the process of building a complete Web application with the Zend Framework, starting with the basics and then adding in more complex elements, such as data pagination and sorting, user authentication, exception handling, localization, and Web services. Debugging and performance optimization are also covered in this fast-paced tutorial.

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Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (www.melonfire.com/), a company specializing in software consultancy and content creation and syndication services. He is the author of PHP Programming Solutions, How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL, and MySQL: The Complete Reference.